The history of totalarianism is in part the conquering of the minds of the individuals and in greater part and with larger scope the erasing of memory and identitiy. ... Twenty years later Mirek is ashamed of his past in both being the lover of the beastly Zdena and of being part of the movement gone astray. ... In the chapter of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting titled Mama; kundera emphasizes a theme that repeats itself many times as an indictment to memory. ...

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This extract, which is taken from chapter eight of George Orwell's Animal Farm, revolves around this issue. ... With that being said, I intend to devote the first two parts of my essay to applying a Marxist reading to this passage using the theories of Michele Foucault and of Louis Althusser; while in the last part, I will attempt to draw a parallel between the actual sociopolitical situation in the farm and that in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution and under the rule of Joseph Stalin. ...

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Indeed, this is quite the direction Cuba is moving in, for the National Program for Environment and Development, which is Cuba's version of Agenda 21, includes five chapters not covered in the Agenda that have been felt to be important to Cuba. These extra chapters are: Sustainable Energy Production, Protection of Tourist Resources, Protection of Mineral Resources, Protection of Workplace Environment, and Natural and Cultural Heritage. ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

These years, later called the Holocaust Years, would see the Jewish population of Europe being exterminated, as part of Hitler's "Final Solution" in dealing with what he called the Jewish problem, in his rhetorical speeches of hate against Jews. ... There is no doubt at all that Nazi Germany was a profoundly anti-Jewish state, due in no small part to Hitler's many speeches and Nazi state-run propaganda. ... After careful examination of the situation, Hitler's own words in Mein Kampf, and the words of those who knew Hitler, it can be concluded that Hitler's constant diatri...

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